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title: “Smith, smith, make me some iron teeth, or I’ll eat you up.” — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Smith, smith, make me some iron teeth, or I’ll eat you up.” Who acts: Smith, wise woman. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 152

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“Smith, smith, make me some iron teeth, or I’ll eat you up.”

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**Who acts:** Smith, wise woman · **What happens:** make, eat up · **To what, where:** iron teeth, wise woman, you

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Smith, wise woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:36:152
# text = “Smith, smith, make me some iron teeth, or I’ll eat you up.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | Smith and smith | some iron teeth | the wise woman *= woman* |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary tooth=Product |
| 2 | **eat up** *in a quote* | future | the wise woman *= woman* | you |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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